3 Baltimore men freed from prison 36 years after wrongful murder conviction, lawyers claim "intentional concealment" of evidence

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/26/us/baltimore-men-freed-after-1983-wrongful-conviction/index.html

 

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Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart were granted a writ of innocence after being convicted of first-degree murder of a middle school student, DeWitt Duckett.

"That was hell," Chestnut said of his experience in jail. "That was miserable."

Chestnut and Watkins were 16 at the time of their arrest and Stewart was 17. The men are now in their early fifties preparing to enter adulthood on the outside for the first time. At least two have never driven a car before.

 

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Lawyers involved in the case said they were "horrified" to see the amount of exculpatory evidence that was hidden from the defense team and jury. Both the suspects and trial witnesses, all minors, were interrogated by police without their parents. Potential witnesses were interviewed in a group and told to "get their story together," according to Chestnut's lawyers.

"We have intentional concealment and misrepresentation of the exculpatory evidence, evidence that would have showed that it was someone else other than these defendants," Mosby said.

Anonymous calls identifying another shooter were kept from the defense, Mosby said. That teenager was seen after the shooting wearing what appeared to be Duckett's jacket and confessing to the murder, she said.

That suspect has since died. All trial witnesses have since recanted, Mosby said.

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

(sigh)

[Keyser_Soze]

[Guest]

We should definitely lock people up for life in inhumane conditions based on our awesome track record of correct convictions. 

[legend]

That false sentence is my entire life